I think it\'s the scene with the scarecrow and Dorthy, that if you look to the left, one of the munchkins hung themselves and you can see him dangling.
They found him after removing the set.
In newer versions this might have been edited out.
If you have seen it, please post the exact scene.

Kind of morbid but whatever.

http://www.gigdig.com/~oz/

Hi, it\'s a urban legend!

www.snopes.com

Ah, yes, I saw that a long time ago, but some show about rumors told the viewers it was false.

This is on JKcinema too I think this is true cuz I watched the color version and I saw it myself JKcinema look at the urban legends videos you\'ll see.

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Yeah. That happened. It\'s not invented like Aladdin and Lion King. (I will slap people who claim otherwise. I\'m sick of this crap.)

But though, the person who did that to Rescuers needed a kick in the butt. --; A prank of sort like this isn\'t nice.

I honestly belive that the munchkin really did hang himself. That rescuers thing was really funny though. There is suicide everywhere, so it is really not that hard to belive that there is one in the wizard of oz. I think that they are trying to cover it up by lying, but i\'m a beliver, now that i have seen proof.;D

It aint true, I just did some investigationing with a dvd and vhs of the wizards of oz, with a zoom in and closely surveying and the munchkin did NOT hang himself, he was swaying back and forth on a stool if you look close enough.

You\'re such an idiot. I provided you with the link that disproved it.

Doc proved the direct path to the link.

Everyone else said that it\'s a urban legend.

What will it take to tell you that it IS NOT TRUE AT ALL?

I really do not like dealing with people like you who will ignore evidence when it\'s right there for you to look at.

[Edited on 7-4-2005 by Kia_Purity]

Since myths and stuff seems to be all the rage in this topic, check this crazy crap out. holy crap

*warning, some sexual content*

hmmmm....it can\'t be true because if someone should of saw him right?

Or for the love of...You know what? That\'s it. I\'m going to go one step further and post that snopes article here so you can read it!
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Claim: A lovelorn actor portraying one of the munchkins hanged himself on the set during the filming of The Wizard of Oz, and his death was captured on-camera and used in the final print.

Status: False.

Origins: The
so-called \"munchkin suicide\" scene occurs at the very end of the Tin Woodsman sequence, as Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman head down the road on their way to the Emerald City. This sequence begins with If they only had a brain! Dorothy and the Scarecrow trying to pick fruit from the talking apple trees, encompasses their discovery of the rusted tin man and their encounter with the Wicked Witch of the West (who tries to set the Scarecrow on fire), and ends with the trio heading off to Oz in search of the Wizard. To give the indoor set used in this sequence a more \"outdoors\" feel, several birds of various sizes were borrowed from the Los Angeles Zoo and allowed to roam the set. (A peacock, for example, can be seen wandering around just outside the Tin Woodsman\'s shack while Dorothy and the Scarecrow attempt to revive him with oil.) At the very end of this sequence, as the three main characters move down the road and away from the camera, one of the larger birds (often said to be an emu, but more probably a crane) standing at the back of the set moves around and spreads its wings. No munchkin, no hanging -- just a big bird.

The unusual movement in the background of the scene described above was noticed years ago, and it was often attributed to a stagehand\'s accidentally being caught on the set after the cameras started rolling (or, more spectacularly, a stagehand\'s falling out of a prop tree into the scene). With the advent of home video, viewing audiences were able to rewind and replay the scene in question, view it in slow-motion, and look at individual frames in the sequence (all on screens smaller and less distinct than those of theaters), and imaginations ran wild. The change in focus of the rumor from a hapless stagehand to a suicidal munchkin (driven to despair over his unrequited love for a female munchkin) seems to have coincided with the heavy promotion and special video re-release of The Wizard of Oz in celebration of its 50th anniversary in 1989: someone made up the story of a diminutive actor who, suffering the pangs of unrequited love for a female \"little person,\" decided to end it all right there on the set, and soon everyone was eager to share this special little film \"secret\" with others. Since (grossly exaggerated) tales of munchkin lechery and drunken misbehavior on the \"Oz\" set had been circulating for years (primarily spread by Judy Garland herself in television talk show appearances), the wild suicide story had some seeming background plausibility to it. (Other versions of the rumor combined elements from both explanations, such as the claim that the strange figure was actually a stagehand hanging himself.)

The logistics of this alleged hanging defy all credulity. First of all, the forest scenes in The Wizard of Oz were filmed before the Munchkinland scenes, and thus none of the munchkin actors would have been present. And whether one believes that the figure on the film is a munchkin or a stagehand, it is simply impossible that a human being could have fallen onto a set actively being used for filming, and yet none of the dozens of people present -- actors, directors, cameramen, sound technicians, light operators -- failed to notice or react to the occurrence. (The tragic incident would also had to have been overlooked by all the directors, editors, film cutters, musicians, and others who worked on the film in post-production as well.) That anyone could believe a scene featuring a real suicide would have been left intact in a classic film for over fifty years is simply incredible.